Does a bear crap in the woods? Yes, and unless you want to hike all weekend with your colon feeling like an anaconda swallowing a pig, you will too, so be prepared with this small plastic trowel. Strong enough to dig yourself a "cathole" in even pretty tough ground, but only weighs 2 ounces. About 11" long and 3" wide - wrap in a plastic bag with your TP and keep outside your pack in a mesh compartment or elsewhere away from your food. And when you've done your business, make use of hand cleaner - your partner whose bag of trail mix you dig into will appreciate it or pick up some of our Camp Suds.

There's actually a fairly famous, good-selling book entitled "How to S*&t in the Woods, An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art". We won't go into an entire tome on the subject, but proper sanitation habits on the trail are important for both wilderness aesthetics and health reasons and we have a brief but important article on the subject.

And folks, this is a purchase-only item, we, uh, don't want these back . . .